World Health Initiative

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World Health Initiative
Charity Organization

• Leading the way in quality health care for the
  needy in the 21st Century

HEALTH INTERVENTION PROJECT NIGERIA / AFRICA
(HIP) A rural underserved community outreach
program
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WHICO

• WORLD HEALTH INITIATIVE CHARITY ORGANIZATION
  (WHICO) is a non-governmental, not for profit,
  grassroots organization made up of various
  partners mostly in the health care delivery.

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WHICO Mission

• Provide outreach clinics in rural underserved
  poor African communities
• Diagnose and treat diseases
• Strive to provide needed medicines and supplies
  in all communities it serves
• Develop within all underserved and poor
  communities in Africa a supply channel of
  adequate medicines and medical care givers

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WHICO Mission

• Provide the knowledge and education needed to
  improve communities
• Facilitate communication forums and education on
  health matters related to prevention, treatment
  of outbreaks and access to prevention measures

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Facts About Nigeria

• Population  126,635,626
• Ethnic groups over 250 groups
• Hausa/Fulani 29 Yoruba 21
• Igbo (Ibo) 18 Ijaw 10
• Kanuri 4 Ibibio 3.5
• Tiv 2.5
• Religions 
• Muslim 50 Christian 40
• Indigenous beliefs 10
• Languages  English (official) Hausa
• Yoruba Igbo (Ibo) Fulani
  
• Population below poverty line  45

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Facts on the State of Nigeria / Africa

• More than 10,000 Nigerians will have become HIV
  infected within a week
• At least 42,000 families in Africa have buried
  someone, most often a man or woman at the prime,
  productive stages of their lives
• Africa's children are being increasingly
  exploited by traffickers,who make billions of
  dollars a year by buying children for as little
  as 14 dollars a head and sending them to slavery
  in Europe or the Gulf
• According to a recent ILO report,an estimated 60
  of sex workers in Italy are from Nigeria

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Facts on the State of Nigeria / Africa

• Out of the 300,000 child soldiers around the
  world,it is estimated that 120,000 of these are
  African children who have been forced and
  recruited to take part in wars and fighting in
  some African countries
• Literacy for ages 15 over who can read and
  write  
• 57.1 male  67.3 female
• Spending on Education (GNP) for some African
  Countries as compared to Nigeria
• Country GNP
• Angola 4.9 Mozambique 4.1
• Cote d' Ivoria 5 Nigeria 0.76
• Ghana 4.4 South Africa 7.9
• Kenya 6.5 Tanzania 3.4
• Malawi 5.4 Uganda 2.6

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Our desire is to make WHICO an established and
sustainable entity in Nigeria and Africa. We
believe that our calling is to serve the rural
underserved poor communities in Nigeria and
within the entire continent of Africa.
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Medical Mission Results for 2004

• We've conducted four Medical Missions in four
  different rural communities within Nigeria
• Treated over 1,680 patients
• Set the stage for the 1st 2005 Live Mission
  Encampment Dedication including Nigeria
  Lectureship and Workshop (we anticipate over 3000
  in attendance and over 12 organizations involved)
• And Much More...

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2004 Medical Mission Volunteers

• Amaechi Izuchukwu
• Chidera Izuchukwu
• Dr. Nwokolo
• Dr. Steven Okeke
• Dshaikh Izuchukwu
• Ekwunife N.C
• Euphemia Ezehwekwe
• Ezenwanne F.N
• Honorable Osita Ezeh

• Idigo CC
• Ifeh Roseline
• Ifeoma Izuchukwu, MD, MPH
• Ignatius Jibueze
• Kene Izuchukwu
• Oaikhena Eseigbe
• Obianuju Izuchukwu
• Nwachukwu Rita
• Nwaelom Philomena

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Photo Gallery of the 2004 Medical Trip to Nigeria
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Photo Gallery of the 2004 Medical Mission Trip
to Nigeria
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Photo Gallery of the 2004 Medical Mission Trip
to Nigeria
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What We Need!!!

• Assistance with our Medical Missions
• - need medicines, medical supplies
  and equipment
• - operational funding (financial
  donations)
• - medical personnel (doctors,
  nurses assistants)
• Aid to provide crowd control at the gates of the
  medical clinics
• Volunteers to manage check-ins and registration
  of people